Publications of Thomas Wolfe

Compiled by David Strange

“Publications of Thomas Wolfe” is divided into two sections: 1) Separate Publications; and 2) First-Appearance Contributions to Books, Magazines, and Newspapers. Collections of Wolfe letters were included (for example, Elizabeth Nowell’s The Letters of Thomas Wolfe), but not letters published individually (or in small collections) within other books or magazines (for example, Wolfe’s last letter to Max Perkins was first published about 13 years before the Nowell edition of Letters; and some of his correspondence with Margaret Roberts was published in the Atlantic Monthly 60 years before Ted Mitchell published Windows of the Heart). Sources for readers who want to find these letters are provided at the end of this page.

Separate Publications

The Crisis in Industry, University of North Carolina, 1919.

Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life, Scribner’s, 1929.

NOTE: Among numerous later editions (including a condensed version for the armed services in 1944) is Look Homeward, Angel: The Adventures of Young Gant (Signet/New American Library, 1948), which contains most of part 2 (chapters 14–26).

Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man’s Hunger in His Youth, Scribner’s, 1935.

NOTE: Among numerous later editions (including a condensed version for the armed services in 1944 or 1945) is Of Time and the River: Young Faustus and Telemachus (Scribner’s, 1965), which contains books 2 and 3 (chapters 7–45).

From Death to Morning, Scribner’s, 1935.

NOTE: A volume containing seven of the fourteen stories in this collection, along with “The Story of a Novel,” was published as Thomas Wolfe Short Stories (Penguin, 1947). The third printing of that volume is titled Only the Dead Know Brooklyn (Signet/New American Library, 1952).

The Story of a Novel, Scribner’s, 1936.

A Note on Experts: Dexter Vespasian Joyner, House of Books, 1939.

The Web and the Rock, Harper, 1939.

NOTE: Among numerous later editions is The Web and the Root (Harper Perennial/Harper Collins, 2009), which contains books 1–3 (chapters 1–16).

The Face of a Nation: Poetical Passages from the Writings of Thomas Wolfe, Scribner’s, 1939.

You Can’t Go Home Again, Harper, 1940.

The Hills Beyond, Harper, 1941.

NOTE: Among numerous later editions are volumes containing various combinations of material from this collection. In addition to those that retain the original title, The Hills Beyond, are volumes titled Stories by Thomas Wolfe / Thomas Wolfe: Selected Great Stories (Avon/Modern Short Story Monthly 17, 1944) and The Lost Boy (Perennial Library/Harper, 1965).